2001. Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History.

2001. Included in 2,000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century (Cambridge, England).

1997. Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters awarded by the Ministry of Culture of
France.(Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministre de la Culture de France.)

1997-1999. Served on prize committee for the Wesley Logan book prize in African
Diaspora History, awarded jointly by the American Historical Association and the Association for the
Study of African-American Life and History.

1991-1996. Principal Investigator, "Africans in
Spanish and Early American Louisiana," Collaborative
Research Project, Division of Research Programs,
National Endowment for the Humanities, with Patrick
Manning as co-investigator.

1997. George W. Lucas Community Service Award, New Orleans Chapter, NAACP.

1997. Elected Elder of the African Heritage Studies Society.

1997: One of the approximately 50 living women
historians to be included in the bio-bibliographical
reference work, American women historians,
1700s-1990s : a biographical dictionary / Jennifer
Scanlon and Sharon Cosner, ed., American Women
Historians from 1700 to the Present, (Westport,
Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997).

1993. Elliott Rudwick Award of the Organization of American Historians

1993. Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in American Immigration History by the Immigration History Society.

1993. The Erminie Wheeler Voegelin Prize, the American Society for Ethnohistory, for the
Best Book in Ethnohistory (honorable mention).

1993. American Association for State and Local History. Certificate of Commendation.

1993. Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.

1993. Outstanding Academic Book of 1993, Choice Magazine.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

Editor, Love, War, and the 96th Engineers (colored): The New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson During World War II (Champaign/Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1995) Paperback edition 2000.

Africans in Colonial Louisiana: the Development of
Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century
(Baton Rouge: L.S.U Press, 1992, paperback
edition, 1995). This book received nine prizes.
See below for some evaluations by the prize
committees.

"Historical Memory, Consciousness and Conscience in
the New Millennium." Plenary address at symposium
about the 300th anniversary of the first French
colonization of Louisiana. In Bradley Bond, ed.,
Greater French Colonial Louisiana: Atlantic World
Perspetives. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2005, 291-309.

"The Meanings of Mina," in Paul Lovejoy and David
Trotman, editors, Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of
Ethnicity in the African Diaspora (London and New
York: Continuum Press, 2003), 65-81.

Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, March, 2000). For an example of extensive media coverage, see a front page story
about this work in the New York Times, Sunday, July 30, 2000. Click on
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/073000la-slaves.html.

WEBSITES WITH SEARCH ENGINES

November 2, 2001. Published On Ibiblio.Org Website Along With A User Friendly Search Engine.

Expansion of my Louisiana databases to include documents throughout the Americas rich in
descriptions of African ethnicities and to cover all times and places throughout the USA where there are
documents describing slaves.

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

Memoirs, untitled

"Diversity, Race Mixture, Slavery, and Freedom: Louisiana 1699-1820."

FILMS AND HISTORICAL DRAMA

A musical stage play was produced on December 14, 2001 in New Orleans sponsored by the Africana and
Diversity Studies Program of the New Orleans Public Schools. It was based on my musical screen play, "La
Cipriere," about runaway slave communities in the cypress swamps surrounding New Orleans published in
Chicory, a magazine devoted to Afro-Louisiana culture I, 1, (Fall, 1988).

SOME TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY APPEARANCES

2003. Louisiana Public Broadcasting Series celebrating the Bi-Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, broadcast over National Public Television.

PBS SERIES, LIFE360, a one hour broadcast ROOTS, November 2, 2001.

BBC WORLD NEWS TV DOMESTIC SERVICE AND BBC World News radio.

2000. LIFETIME LIVE, LIFETIME TV CHANNEL INTERVIEW.

For other media coverage, do a search for Gwendolyn Midlo Hall on Google, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, or any other WEB Search engine.

COMMENTS FROM PRIZE COMMITTEES, AFRICANS IN COLONIAL LOUISIANA

1) The John Hope Franklin Prize awarded by the American Studies Association:

"In making its selection of Africans in Colonial Louisiana, the committee cited the book's wide range
of original research and its certain impact on many fields of American culture. Providing a solid
ground for theory in extensive and difficult archival documentation, the book combines work in
African American history, diaspora and Caribbean culture, anthropology, linguistics, and colonial
American history. It opens to view a new transnational conception of the American culture
that grew from slavery and from slave resistance, and describes a process of creolization whose full
effects have perhaps only become apparent, at least to scholars, in the present day. More than any of
the more than one hundred books submitted to the committee by publishers throughout the country,
Africans in Colonial Louisiana promises to shape the course of future research in American studies for
many years to come."

2) For the Willie Lee Rose Prize of the Southern Association for Women Historians:

"Hall's complex rendering of the mix of cultures in colonial Louisiana is rich, impressive, compelling.
Her fine narrative style and penetrating analysis highlights ethnic diversity within a developing
culture. Hall draws on an impressive array of sources, in French and Spanish as well as English.
She traces the transformation of Africans from their home in Senegambia into Afro-Creoles in
Louisiana. She demonstrates the dynamic of Africanizations within Louisiana culture and
emerges with a perspective on the past wholly fresh and convincing. Hall provides us with a model
study of the way in which a particular people's culture anchored in a specific time and place can
testify to the diversity of American experience. Her thorough and engaging work makes a unique
contribution to the history of African Americans, the colonial South and the distinctive culture
known as Afro-Creole."

3) The Erniminie Wheeler Voegelin Prize, the American Society for Ethnohistory, for the Best Book in Ethnohistory (honorable mention):

"Using Documentation in Spanish and French, Gwendolyn Hall writes the history of African
slaves in colonial Louisiana, employing Eric Wolf's definition of culture as `a series of
processes that construct, reconstruct, and dismantle culture materials in response to
identifiable determinants. Arguing against treating slave culture in isolation, Hall
demonstrates that slaves forged a new culture in America through intense contacts with people of
other backgrounds. Hall gives us a remarkably encompassing study of both the African and the
Louisiana dimensions of her subject. Her research has crossed both national and
disciplinary borders to integrate fresh and compelling information into a presentation that
is closely analytical, absorbing, and revealing."

SOME RECENT LECTURES

March, 2006. Lecture at Florida International University, Miami. Ethnicities in the African Diaspora in the Americas.

July, 2005. Lecture about teaching grade school children about Louisiana history. ESSENCE conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

June 21-22, 2002. Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Linking Africa with the Americas through Databases Created
From Original Manuscript Sources," African Genealogy & Genetics: Looking Back to Move Forward, Center
for Bioethics, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Proceedings to be published on their
website and in Cambridge Quarterly.

February 2, 2002, Lecture and demonstration of my database website sponsored by Middlesex County New
Jersey Culture and Heritage Commission broadcast to advanced placement history high school classes over
public access TV.

October, 2001. Hattiesburg, MS., University of Southern Mississippi. Slaves in the Mississippi
Valley: Making the Invisible Visible. Sponsored by the Graduate Programs in Latin American and in
African History.